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by Eji1700 9 days ago
> I think this is poor advice. Its share of the index will be relatively small and if it is indeed a dud, the index will organically rebalance.

If a 1 to $1.5t IPO that was fast tracked onto the S&P500 and then hoovered up a bunch of index fund money becomes a dud, the organic rebalance is going to start with a full reassessment of if index funds and the S&P can be TRUSTED.

Its very possible it will be more than a blip, although to be fair if it isn't it's going to be the sort thing you aren't going to dodge.